Canavalstraße

In the Salzburg district of Schallmoos, near Sterneckstraße, lies the Canavalstraße, named in 1971 after the journalist Gustav Canaval. It commemorates the son of a railway employee born in Linz in 1898. Canaval began his journalistic career as early as 1922 with the “Reichspost”. Between 1934 and 1936, during the period of Austrofascist rule, he was the editor of the Heimwehr newspaper “Sturm über Österreich”. In 1935, he became the editor-in-chief of the Vienna daily newspaper “Telegraf”, which pursued a strictly anti-national socialist course. Canaval was arrested immediately on 12 March 1938 due to his political views and was deported to the concentration camp Dachau in June. In September 1939, he was transferred to the KZ Flossenbürg, and subsequently back to KZ Dachau. He remained interned in Dachau until his liberation by the US Army. After the end of the Second World War, Canaval received a newspaper licence to found the daily newspaper “Salzburger Nachrichten”. Despite his persecution by the National Socialists and his internment in a concentration camp, he endeavoured to reintegrate former Nazis into society. Canaval died on 26 November 1959 in Salzburg.